M0006615: Portrait of Robert Boyle (1627-1691)

Date:
01 March 1940
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/55/92
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Credit

M0006615: Portrait of Robert Boyle (1627-1691). In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Portrait of The Honourable Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691)

Description

Oil painting of Robert Boyle (1627-1691), Irish natural philosopher, attributed to Johann Kerseboom. The painting was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1922 and accessioned in 1949 (accession number R35/1949). Related images: V0023488

Publication/Creation

01 March 1940

Physical description

3 photographs glass plate negative; 12.7 x 10.2 cm slide transparencies; 12.6 x 10 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 47317i

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Terms of use

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